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Perceived qualities of a 'good' chairman: A challenge for corporate governance in South Africa
South African Journal of Business Management, 2000 Corporate governance is increasingly being viewed as essential to sound business practice. The recommendations of the Cadbury Committee in the United Kingdom will respect to the role of a chairman are similar to those later formulated in the King Report ...
Mike Bendixen, Adèle Thomas
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The Relationship Between Board Diversity and Corporate Environmental Performance: A Meta‐Analysis
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The association between corporate governance mechanisms and corporate environmental performance has gained increasing academic engagement; however, existing empirical studies provide inconsistent results. This study aims at empirically summarizing the results of previous research on the relationship between different characteristics of board ...
My Hanh Doan +3 more
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Persistent Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Some Selected Cocoa Beverages in Nigeria
Beverages, 2017 This study evaluates the quality of the cocoa beverages produced in Nigeria with respect to the occurrence and levels of organochlorine pesticides OCPs residues in order to ascertain the potential health risks to the general public.
Olayinka A. Ibigbami +1 more
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Audit expectation gap: an empirical analysis
Future Business Journal, 2020 The financial debacles that occurred in the companies like Enron, WorldCom, and Xerox in the USA, Lehman Brothers, Polly Peck in the UK and African Petroleum Plc., Cadbury Plc., in Nigeria had created public distrust with the auditors.
Paul Olojede +3 more
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Innovative strategies and firm growth: evidence from selected fast moving consumer goods firms in Lagos state, Nigeria [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2019 Critical to the sustainability and continuous success of every organization is the performance concept. Hence, the cardinal goal of every organization is to achieve sustainable progressive performance for their organization.
Adekunle Oluwole Binuyo +2 more
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Lobbying and Political Risk Disclosure: Do Socially Responsible Firms Voluntarily Disclose More?
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on theories of strategic communication, legitimacy, impression management and moral capital, this study investigates whether firms use political risk disclosure to offset negative perceptions associated with corporate lobbying. Using a sample of 10,120 observations from 1362 US firms between 2002 and 2018, we find that firms with ...
Maretno A. Harjoto +4 more
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Compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code: Can the heterogeneous implementation be explained? [PDF]
Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości, 2019 Starting with the Cadbury code in 1992, various national and international Corporate Governance (CG) codes have been issued all over the world.
Karsten Eisenschmidt, Ute Vanini
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Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article assesses the normative case for using citizens' assemblies—small deliberative forums of randomly selected citizens—in health policymaking. Although they are increasingly popular, their normative justification remains underexplored. We reconstruct three possible rationales: Norman Daniels's ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ (A4R)
Daniel Hutton Ferris, Johannes Kniess
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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A process‐temporal perspective on organizational paradoxes: A review and future research agenda
International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars are increasingly studying paradox processes, yet insights remain disconnected, with limited discussion across studies’ perspectives. Consequently, research risks underutilizing valuable findings, thereby reducing both theoretical and practical progress.
Jan Heiberg Johansen +1 more
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